Volume Eight of Conrad's collected letters covers the last nineteen months of his life (1923-24). Much of this correspondence is unpublished; its editors have had access to the major private collections as well as holdings in public and academic libraries. The letters themselves are accompanied by notes on contexts, allusions, and editorial problems, and prefaced with a general introduction and biographies of the correspondents. Letters to his family written during his visit to the United States are a notable feature of this collection, which is also rich in comments on literary questions, current events, his experiences at sea, the reception of The Rover, and work on his unfinished novel, Suspense.

London, 1886 and Mr Adolf Verloc runs a sex shop in the heart of Soho. Verloc also works for the Russian embassy, spying on a group of London anarchists. Verloc is assigned a mission: Blow up the Greenwich Observatory and make it look like a terrorist attack. Should he fail, Verloc's real identity as a spy will be exposed to his vicious comrades.

Author Biography - Joseph Conrad

Laurence Davies is Professor and Senior Research Fellow in the Department of English Literature at the University of Glasgow and Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. Gene M. Moore is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Amsterdam.

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